Problem
You've lost, or you've accidentally deleted ,the Central Administration database from your MOSS or Windows SharePoint Services environment.
Explanation
Obviously corruptions happen, users get carried away with stsadm, or, in my case, you simply deleted the wrong database and you didn't have a backup. Luckily for me, I made this mistake in a test environment. Not to worry, there's any easy fix, see below!
Solution
It's actually quite simple to recover a central administration databas...